The wet weather in Southern California isn't ready to let up just yet, with scattered showers this weekend and another bout of rain expected on Wednesday.
The region saw steady rain early Sunday, adding to recent rainfall totals. Most of Los Angeles County received between a quarter of an inch and an inch of rain in the past three days, and foothill communities like Pasadena received a little more, with 1.34 inches, said Rose Schoenfeld, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
In addition to light rain, wind gusts could reach up to 35 or 40 mph across the region, particularly in coastal areas such as Malibu, Santa Monica or Manhattan Beach, as well as in deserts, he said.
Temperatures will be around 60 degrees in Los Angeles County, although the region is expected to gradually warm next week. For Friday, temperatures will be mild, around 70 degrees.
Caltrans said the current rain did not affect state roads and highways in Los Angeles or Ventura counties, although the agency is still monitoring a landslide in Santa Paula that closed a two-mile stretch of State Route 150 nearly two years ago. weeks.
Traffic is closed on that route between Mupu Road and Stonegate Road while Caltrans conducts additional testing on the slide material to determine how deep it is and any additional material that may slide, said Caltrans spokesman Michael Comeaux. The agency hopes to begin removing material from that route in mid-March, he said.
The next rain in Southern California is expected Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, with rain chances decreasing Wednesday night, Schoenfeld said.
“With that one, we're expecting pretty low totals,” he said. “This is not a big storm coming.”
Meanwhile, the Sierra Nevada is experiencing much more intense weather this weekend with a rare blizzard warning extended through Monday morning for the Lake Tahoe area and into Sunday night for the Lake Tahoe area. Mammoth Mountain. Key roads to Mammoth Mountain from Southern California and to the northern Tahoe area from Sacramento and Reno remained closed Sunday morning.
According to the weather service, gusts of more than 100 mph were expected in the Sierra ridges into early Monday morning. At Donner Pass along Interstate 80, an additional 18 inches of snow could fall through early Monday. Most of the new snow will fall from Highway 50 to the north, which includes the Lake Tahoe region. Around Mammoth Lakes, south of the highway, an additional 1 to 4 inches could fall Monday morning.
There could be a brief lull in new snowfall on Monday, but later in the evening and into Tuesday, more snow could fall, primarily concentrated over the Sierra north of Highway 50.
Avalanche warnings remain in effect until Sunday night.
Times staff writers Rong-Gong Lin II and Melody Petersen contributed to this report.
